Strategic Priorities and Plans

Understanding the complex challenges of the current moment, and believing that the acct ecosystem is well-suited to make significant, distinct contributions to addressing them, IMPACT has designed and begun activating a platform for strengthening acct.

This multifaceted platform includes aspects of our initial vision, augmented by our learning from the activities and conversations from IMPACT’s first eighteen months. While the full shape the of platform is still emerging, elements are already activated, drawing on the sense of urgency and the commitment of the creative and motivated people who contributed to its design. Other elements are in planning stages or are part of the aspirational, long-term vision of IMPACT.

We envision IMPACT providing opportunities for sustained, ethical attention to the emerging needs and strengths of the acct ecosystem as a whole. We think this will position acct to better advocate for creative approaches to transforming violent conflict and related challenges. This will strengthen the ecosystem because the efforts of a diverse range of players will reinforce each other in strategic ways.

IMPACT is enacting this theory of change through strategic priorities based on acct’s specific needs and strengths:

grounding IMPACT in principles and values of reciprocity and decolonization and supporting acct players to do the same

fostering connectivity and inclusion regionally and globally through in-person and virtual exchanges

advocating with donors and related fields for resources for acct that are strongly aligned with the needs of the ecosystem

supporting the formation of working groups to address acct’s priority needs like knowledge generation and sharing and evaluation

developing approaches to coordination and strategy that distribute leadership while still ensuring stability and coherence

These strategic priorities guide IMPACT’s most ambitious experiment so far: a web of 6 teams linked by and accountable to a Leadership Circle. The circle distributes leadership, reflecting our commitment to decolonizing approaches to governance. The circle consists of 2 - 4 members from each of the six IMPACT teams.